Long range rifle shooting with Paul Childerley

Paul Childerley needs to cull Chinese water deer in a field so big he can’t stalk close enough. Perhaps Zeiss ambassador and PRS shooter Andy Simpson-Nix can help - and convince him to give PRS competition a go with his new rig of a Sako S20 rifle and Zeiss LRP S3 scope.
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There are more than two million red, roe, fallow, sika, muntjac and Chinese water deer in Britain’s countryside and semi-urban areas, the highest level for 1,000 years. Numbers have doubled since 1999, according to the Deer Initiative, the UK government’s deer agency.
Deer are an attractive and an important part of our wildlife. However, they have no natural predator in the UK so numbers must be sensibly and strategically managed to keep them in balance with their habitat and to prevent damage to crops, trees, woodland flora, gardens and other wildlife.
Deer cause £4.5 million-worth (Forestry Commission Scotland) of damage to plantations and other commercial woodlands in Scotland. Crop damage is estimated at £4.3m a year according to DEFRA, with the greatest damage on cereal crops in east and south-west England.
More than 8,000 hectares (Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology) of woodland with SSI status is currently in ‘unfavourable’ or ‘recovering’ condition due to deer impacts such as browsing and fraying. Deer can also influence the variety of wildlife in woodlands and other habitats by altering structural and plant species diversity. According to the University of East Anglia’s Dr Paul Dolman, that has resulted in a 50% decline in woodland bird numbers where deer are present, impacting particularly on nightingales, blackcaps, chiffchaffs and warblers.
Deer are susceptible to Bovine TB and may be responsible for the transmission of TB to cattle. They are also the likely driver behind the UK’s increasing tick population (Scharlemann et al 2008).
Happily, venison is a delicious meat. It is wild, natural and free range, and - almost fat-free - it is one of the healthiest meats available today. Results from research commissioned by the Game-to-Eat campaign (Leatherhead Food International Research 2006) suggest that there are real health benefits to eating game. Venison is high in protein, low in saturated fatty acids and contains higher levels of iron than any other red meat.

[@KolyaNickD]

Could have just used a nice classical rifle and uncluttered 6x40 in the end for those shots

[@joesands952]

So the reticule on this long range zeiss scope, is it in the first orical plane or the secound ? i have both zeiss and sm /bender scopes which are in the first plane BUT for long range i perfer my Leopold 4x.5 x 14 parrelax adjust mill dot and ill ret this on the 300 win mag this in the secound plane as i like a fine thin sight in comparison and not two rope strands like in the first plane on all the others . But then target turrets are more simple to use in the first plane ? so which best all round hunting do you think is best option for all my sako and tikka custom rifles ?

[@michaelearl7118]

Hello Paul, is that a 24" barrel? Could you do the same thing with a Carbon Wolf which I assume would be lighter. The reason I ask is because I'm interested in getting a gun for hunting which would also be good for long range targets. (not competition) Weight would be my primary concern.

[@cal79]

Paul get a hair cut,,,, your starting to look like chris packham..🤣🤣🤣

[@ddoherty5956]

Out of order Cal 🤣🤣🤣

[@cal79]

@@ddoherty5956 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@advanmook7166]

Paul waarom laat jij een snor staan staat je goed schiet beter